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“They laugh until no one can forget that this is what we leave behind when we go: the laughs.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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“And then he pushed Elsa into a radiator. And then Elsa hit him with a book. Elsa still thinks he should thank her for it, because that’s probably the nearest that boy ever got to a book.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“...Elsa had grown conscious of the fact that the girl hadn't read Harry Potter at all. She knew who he was, of course, everyone knows who Harry Potter is, but she hadn't read the books....And while Elsa didn't want to be elitist or anything, how could one be expected to reason with a person like that?
Muggles.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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